Toy wagon.



PATENTBD DEC. 25, 1906.[

W. SLATTERY. TOY WAGON. APPLICATION FILED JULY7. 1906.

ATTORNEYS WITNESSES Z%Z PATENT @FFIOE.

WlLLIAM sLA'rrEeY,

OF NEXV-YORK, N. Y.

TOY WAGON.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Eatented Dec. 25, 1906.

Application filed July '7. 1906. Serial No. 325,126.

Ml whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, YVrLL AM SLA'rrnnY, a citizen of the United States, and a resident-of the city of New York, borough of Manhattan, county and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Toy Wzigon, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention is an improvement in toy wagons, providing a novel construction to interest and amuse the young.

It consists of a four-wheeled structure having vertical standards adjacent to each wheel, on which are journaled spools orreels adapted to be driven from the periphery. of the wheels and also themselves driving ornamental spinning devices in an elevated posi tion.

.Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in-which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both figures.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the wagon, and Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same.

Referring to the drawings, the numeral 1 indicates a bed having an extension 2 at its forward end, provided with a bifurcation 3, in which a tongue a is pivoted. Trans versely secured to the bed in spaced relation are axletrees 5 and 6, formed with axles at each end, on which front wheels 7 and rear wheels 8 are respectively journaled. These wheels are preferably covered on their circumference with tires of leather or other frictional material, as shown in Fig. 1.

7 Fixed adjacent to each of the front and rear wheels to the wagon-bed and rising vertically therefrom are standards 9 and 9, said standards 9 having transversely journaled in them a shaft 10, carrying a friction-roller 11, fixed to each of its ends in contact with the wheels 7. To the center of the shaft a bell 12- is secured, and at the opposite side thereof a weight 13 is fixed, acting to coun-.

terbalance the bell as it is rotated. Journaled on each of the standards 9 is a reel comosed of end disks 14, rigidly fixed together y a series of substantially equally-s aeed vertical rods 15, the lower disk of eac reel resting on the top Of-Qjtfih friction-roller 11. A second set of reels comprising end disks 14 rigidly connected together by a series of vertical rods 15, are journaled on the standards '9, the lower disk 14 of the reels resting on the tire of each wheel 8.

It should be noted that the rear reels are somewhat longer than those at the front of the wagon to compensate for the thickness of the roller 11, thereby bringing the top disks 1.4 and 14- in the same plane. Each of the standards 9 and 9 have conical tips 16 and two slots int crsecting each other passing through them at their upper end, said slots being arranged at right angles to each other and assing, respectively, in a transverse and ongitudinal direction of the wagon. Journaled in these slots, by'rneans of pins 16, are square axes 17, transversely arranged and provided'with rounded ends on which are fixed frictionrollers 18 and at their centers two cross-bars 19, preferably with dia- 'inondshaped ends,forming the spinning devices. A second set of spinning devices 19, preferably of the same construction as the spinning devices 19, arefixed to longitudh. nally-arranged axes 17 a with rounded end portions, on which are fixed friction-wheels 18, in contact with the disks 14 and 14 and journaled in said slots by means of pins 16. The friction-rollers 18 are of slightly larger diameter than the friction-rollers 18 in order that when they are in contact With the disks 14 and 14 thepins 16 and 16 will not aline. In the operation of the Wagon as it is'pulled forward the front reels are driven in a reverse direction from the reels journaled at its rear end by reason of the friction-rollers 11, intermediate the wheels 7 and lower disks 14. This reversal of rotation of the'reels is necessary in order that friction-wheels 18, in contact with the up er disks 14 and 14, will drive their attachi axes in the same direction. It is of course understood that the bell 12 is rotated as the Wagon moves, causing it to ring. 1

Although I have described the invention in detail, it is to be understood that the see c thereof is limited by tlle annexed claims on y. Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patentadjacent to each wheel thereof and adapted to be driven by them, means intermediate one pair of said rotatable means and the adj acent Wagon-wheels for changing the direction of rotation of said pair of rotatable means with respect to the other pair, and a plurality of spinning devices driven by said rotatable means.

2. In a "wagon, a standard secured adjal cent to each wheel thereof, a reel journaled 1. In a wagon, rotatable means joiirnaled' each axis in Contact with a reel, and aspinon each standard adapted to be driven by I In testimony whereof I have'signed my said wheels, means for ciianging the direction name to this specification in thepresenee of of rotation of one pair of said reels, a series of two subscribing Witnesses. i I axes journaled in the upper end of said standi WILLIAM SLATTERY ards, a friction-roller fixed to each end of Witnesses: v

JOSEPH A. Cnmsrmffi ning device fixed to each axis. JAMEs J. COYLE. 

